Personal finance

Traveling with disabilities: should you plan every move - or just go?

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Some travelers with disabilities carefully plan their trips, checking on such factors as availability of medication, medical insurance, and ease of access. Others, such as Rick Crowder who is partially paralyzed, plans nothing before starting out, feeling that barriers will fall.

On the water front: this woman's passion is defending the deep

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Marine biologist Sylvia Earle, the first woman to hold the post of chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is on a crusade to save the oceans. Earle believes that the survival of the planet depends on the environmental health of the oceans.